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SLU meets Boston at Roffi.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:54:04 -0400

SLU meets Boston at Roffi.

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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:31:05 -0500

the-absolute-best-posts: dutdutgoose: oh my god SHUT...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:37:44 -0500

the-absolute-best-posts:

dutdutgoose:

oh my god SHUT UP

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awesomephilia: Petting chart for cats (via)

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:01:46 -0500

awesomephilia:

Petting chart for cats (via)

100-Year Flood Zones | WNYC

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:03:31 -0500

100-Year Flood Zones | WNYC

this-is-not-native: With Halloween just around the corner...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:02:22 -0400

this-is-not-native:

With Halloween just around the corner (yay!!), I figured it was time to bring back this rad campaign from Ohio University.

There are endless cute, sexy, funny, even offensive costumes that don’t perpetuate racist stereotypes. There is really no excuse.

nickholmes:

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:30:19 -0400

nickholmes:

berkeleybeacon: President Pelton had his inauguration ceremony...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:39:41 -0400

berkeleybeacon:

President Pelton had his inauguration ceremony on Friday, where he officially became the college’s 12th president — and during the ceremony, #Pelton2012 became a trending topic in Boston. See more photos and read the story here.

Photos by Ally Chapman / Beacon Staff.

thereoworld: Rachel @maddow’s last segment from last night. Just...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:09:39 -0400

thereoworld: Rachel @maddow’s last segment from last night. Just wow. #freespeech #libya #americaabroad

We do not [ban] speech, even stupid and offensive and provocative speech, we don’t ban it. Beyond all the chest-thumping by politicians right now about standing up for the right of free speech in the face of this protest, the fact is that no American official is not standing up for free speech. Nobody’s apologizing. Nobody is denying American free speech rights.

But that’s not enough. What we ought to be wanting them to get right is not just defending free speech, but explaining it in a way that makes sense to the world.

(Transcript from http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/49033879/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/#.UFNlj41lSQw)

adventuresofachildlikewonder: Tumblr friends/fans! Please take...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:30:26 -0400

adventuresofachildlikewonder:

Tumblr friends/fans! Please take a moment to watch this video and learn about a music for a cause business I own. I work with local, independent musicians to help them use their music to support a cause they care about. Since I am a start-up, I need help funding the last stages of production on this album. The album is called “Songs For Project Believe In Me.” It features 12 independent artists from across the U.S. and one more established artists, Kimya Dawson, who generously donated their music for our use. The album hopes to use its positive music to inspire teens suffering from issues (depression, stress, suicide, anxiety, etc.) related to bullying. We follow a one for one movement (like TOMs) so for every CD we sell, we will donate one to a teen in a school counseling program dealing with such issues. Though we can’t gurantee the CDs will help, our hope is to brighten their day and give them something to remind them that they are never alone. Everyone involved in this project genuinely cares about the well being of others. Music is power, never forget that.

I’d appreciate it so much if you can donate any amount. In return for your donation, we’re offering some cool rewards, so check out the kickstarter by clicking HERE.

Please re-share this! It’s World Suicide Prevention Day is this is how we are helping raise awareness. Myself and the Hold On Another Day blog (projectholdonanotherday.tumblr.com) will follow you if you re-share as well! :-)

Thanks!

All the best,

Isabel

thatfeministmoment: when men can’t imagine why women would want...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:46:40 -0400

thatfeministmoment: when men can’t imagine why women would want to have an abortion while trying to legislate whether women can have abortions.

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thereoworld:These are apparently 4 years old (according to the...

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:21:17 -0400

thereoworld:These are apparently 4 years old (according to the post date). Funny how the same issues are still in play. http://www.oberholtzer-creative.com/visualculture/2008/10/freedumb-isnt-free/

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:33:59 -0400

Would you like to know how easy President Barack Obama is making it for you to vote?

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:56:55 -0400

inothernews:Easy to do. SO DO IT.
barackobama:Yeah, this is pretty rad.
universal-magnetic:
The Obama campaign released an embeddable voter registration form that you can insert into any of your websites, including tumblr.

I don’t think you guys understand, President Obama is letting you get registered to vote from tumblr.

This must be what life was like for The Jetsons.

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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:43:17 -0400

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At the Risk of Sounding Angry: On Melissa Harris-Perry’s Eloquent Rage

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:50:26 -0400

At the Risk of Sounding Angry: On Melissa Harris-Perry’s Eloquent Rage:

crunkfeministcollective:

The internets were all abuzz over the weekend sharing clips of our collective Black feminist shero Melissa Harris-Perry’s Saturday morning show. During the show, she lost her cool with panelist Monica Mehta, a conservative financial expert, who represented every unthoughtful mythic thing that I’ve come to believe a person has to believe in order to be a member of today’s racist Republican Party.

After I posted the clip to my FB page, a former student of mine, simply commented that this was an example “eloquent rage.” She knew I would get the reference, because the first time she ever used it was in reference to me, and my impassioned style of teaching students about the politics of race, class, and gender. My first reaction to being characterized in this way was denial. “I’m not angry,” I told her. “I’m passionate.” And then she looked at me with a tell-tale knowing honesty and said simply, “You know you’re angry, Brittney.” (Sometimes in some places, I let my students call me by name.)

It was one of the most transformative moments in my teaching because I realized a.) that it was anger, and not merely passion b.) that I was bringing it with me into the classroom c.) that I had a right to be angry about the injustices that I teach about and live daily and d.) I could resist and deny my anger or use it to make me better at what I do. I chose the latter.

When I watched Melissa lose it, oh so beautifully, passionately, eloquently, and truthfully, for the brief moment that she did I experienced deep and profound knowing, the knowing that comes from the frustration of having to listen to people talk sideways to you, about shit that is merely theoretical for them, all the while you know that the attitudes they hold are especially detrimental to people who look like you.

It is even more infuriating when people of color espouse such bullshit. I know that all Black and Brown folk don’t think alike. I also know that when folk of color align themselves with the Republican Party, that alignment is often deeply tied to a deep disdain and disavowal for what they perceive to be a narrative of Black victimhood that makes one beholden to social entitlements (welfare). I know Black and other non-white folks who’ve made their life paths about distancing themselves from such a narrative. There is also a liberal version, and that version is a Toure’ style “post-Blackness” “post-race” blah. But to believe in any of it is to remain in deep denial about the way that white supremacy structures our society.

This denial allows people to see MHP’s expression of anger as over the top and out of order, and miss the fact that Clint Eastwood’s “performance” at the RNC last week was nothing if not a classic white male racial temper tantrum.

It also allowed Monica Mehta’s persistent use of racial microaggressions towards Black people to come off as earnest commentary, while Melissa’s emotional reaction was perceived as disproportionate to the slight. There is also a racialized gender dynamic at play as well in which white women and non-Black women who are frequently exoticized can use the hyperfemininity ascribed to their bodies as a shield behind which they get to say the most racially problematic shit, and have it remain unrecognized as aggressive and offensive.

I applaud MHP for her show of eloquent rage. It was honest, and it is so necessary in this moment of massive political dishonesty. Moreover, in light of the destruction caused by Hurricane Isaac and the personal impact that it had on MHP’s family, her stress was completely understandable.

MHP’s house destroyed in Hurricane Isaac

Even when she apologized for losing it, I’m glad that she took off the strong Black woman mask, and said in effect, I’m stressed, my family just lived through another Hurricane on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and even though I have this fancy job and resources at my disposal, all is not well. In other words, she wasn’t just showing anger. She was showing pain. The kind of pain that Black women are frequently not allowed to publicly acknowledge is actually happening in our own lives.

One of the ways White supremacy and sexism works is through a putative disavowal of emotion as a legitimate form for expressing thought. Women and Black people are overly emotional, so the conventional wisdom goes. We have been taught to overcompensate for this stereotype by being overly composed, even when anger is warranted. And we are wholly unprepared when our emotions start to split the seams of our tightly put on public selves. Perhaps it’s time to change clothes, and intentionally put on something gives us room to breathe.

For me, that has meant embracing my own crunkness. Why go off when I can GET CRUNK? And by that I mean I can make an intentional choice to use my legitimate and righteous anger in an honest and compassionate way that is potentially transformative.

I, for one, am thankful for MHP’s voice and her courage, and yep, you guessed it– her CRUNKNESS.

osobigbear: Melissa Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:31:19 -0400

osobigbear:

Melissa Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than being poor in America [full video]

she is the best

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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:41:25 -0400

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Portland boy trying to sack hunger in Portland with PB&Js

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:50:03 -0400

Portland boy trying to sack hunger in Portland with PB&Js:

tjjourian:

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -

Kadin Adam, 10, doesn’t just play football, he lives it.

As a quarterback on a Parkrose Youth Football team, there’s always been something about beating a tackle he loves.

“You get to run the ball and score a touchdown,” he said.

But this summer, there’s a new end zone Kadin has his sights set on. He’s collecting cans and bottles by the dozen and using the money to buy food for the hungry in downtown Portland.

Once he cashes in on the cans and bottles, he buys the fixings for his favorite sandwich: the PB&J. Then, with the help of his mother, he cranks out one sandwich after another.

With sandwiches in hand, he delivers the PB&Js to those living on the streets of downtown Portland.

“It’s more than just honorable,” one homeless man told FOX 12. “It’s something he wants to do for a lot of people who are struggling, and I think that’s great.”

Ending hunger in Portland might seem like a tall task for anyone, but Kadin said he’s just doing his part with his PB&J blitz.

“If we all pitched in a little bit, we could all help feed the homeless people,” Kadin said.

thepoliticalnotebook: Picture of the Day: Port-au-Prince,...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:25:41 -0400

thepoliticalnotebook:

Picture of the Day: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A cat sits on a bed in a flooded home in the Haitian capital after tropical storm Isaac passed through.

According to the Associated Press, the post-storm death toll in Haiti is at 19.

Credit: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP. Via.

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